A Northern transplant teenager chafes under the culture of her Southern U.S. high school and creates her own deity. A reanimated corpse joins a zombie crawl, and stuffed animals spill the beans on their unsettling secrets. This short story collection offers curious insights into human nature with humor as well as an unsettling view toward its darker truths. Here you’ll find fortune-telling pancakes, second-tier superheroes, and the occasional possum.And it may make you think twice before opening the kitchen cabinets.

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Perchance to Dream

All Kinds of Hell

Self-professed Über-geek Joely Malone blames herself for the car accident that nearly kills her and her sister, Becca. But she has no one to blame for Becca's dramatic conversion to Evangelical Christianity, except for Becca's friend Katie. And, perhaps, God.

In the following weeks, as Becca attempts to save Joely from eternal damnation, Joely comes to believe that there are all kinds of hell, from her alienation from her sister, to their father's functional alcoholism, to her increasingly tenuous relationship with her musician boyfriend, Aaron.

In a final, desperate attempt to reconnect with Becca, Joely decides to give Jesus a chance. She volunteers with Becca for the church's Hell House event, an interactive drama designed to scare the Hell out of attendees and chase them straight into Heaven.

But it's only when Joely sees how far Becca has gone that she can face her greatest fear and take a step of faith into the unknown.